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    ENDENCIES | | | newtesty toe Types in Sm by Te aren Stems ‘log ere No paths ok may pated ‘reper vlad yom ry ene ‘scans ather ms nw in heer, moved ng hcg nd arg ‘nang he pte th ry Catling Pain Date Actabpe rd ford uk x teem he ein ue a Non” opened a Mak band sone Pld Orc nd Trt. Moe fom ‘Anion Une (New Yorker ac sop at © yy Ee Kosky Spe Treg af Unknoning” penny ape n Ge done Sing 8 rn adie pm ane Anand the Msi Gil ft ape Cat ng Game tt Aes, © Bae ay Seper Sipe pe pa an Ca stg repened ypermen. . Natasa Seas pevatapeein An Pa, Hon ong Yor Kis Up ay Si pened in Soil Tet 9 185.6 wary Socal etal spay pn. = tear an Oe Scapa nhc Genet, eS wil Cae an Oe Seth tc Quy es os 99) 20 iby Dake Unrerny e A Rem Being Winn” pth ape in Rr 7 (Bie Ig nah OY he Reps he Une Cal, mney pemision Disiniy” evo pene in Duce. (F-Winep>si tngca repel bpm "Phe Clase pene ate Yer of icin al pa ‘Gta Ya Unread perme queer Ano AMORVE [tisk vervone who does Ray ndlesbian studies haunted bythe rocdes of adolescents, To us the hard stasis come csi that queer teenagers ae two 10 thee times lke t attempe suicide, and vo accom lish than others that up oso percent of en suicides ar ely to be ayo sbi; that a thie oflesbian and gay teenagers sa they have atempeed suicide that minority quer adolescents area even more extreme risk “The knowledge s indelible, but not astonishing, to anyone with a reason to be atuned othe profligate way this elkare has of denying and despoiling quer ener and lives. Hook at my adult ends and colleagues doing lesbian an gay work, afl that he survival ofeach one 3 mace Fveryone who survived hae sores aboot how t was done an outgrown anguish Remembered, athe Mile ‘Our panting Anke barely passed— ‘When Night devoured the Road — But we-stood whispering inthe Howse Anal wesaid—wat Saved"? Put Gin.“ Me Lobe Yt Sele” US Dee Heth oman Seer Reporte cry Tk Freon ot Sere Weg, DE re Sy WITT ane aun lnlien net Pee “’ p 2 Queerand Now” JY. chino a? How oo ae pn ever rn JX that Farber slong he ad wies a thei bgcs hie Bigwociee ae worlswhre plier demands nadine lrermoioaes ho my plo dain don tale ee dads py hart mesa ke tata pe ecg mas ae Te tothe wre oe Pa eek ‘Be pepnean chor genet ns oh hee ra ey, ren mbar nena ea seer ke dae cin hee eee ee ive Bdsm sah ofp bg ye ca idem tees nn pan anise po eda pe ag a eek eth this ones working: in San Franeaco for wanes ey aon soley mn ee a ‘home py serene ee ee ‘ion hin tom gu ss ee ‘hohe ean nea san ot oho yh Tecmo see ree of th nat pass ee a a ‘se sow ginko ees he nmi “ptf on enka ene aes “sc wt pen ee alsa ams ‘dh ane an ban, mano ae eee an qomerl aloes ak ies in 198; unre sonal psu, rohmenatin sed oh this section ofthe report r ed ys Por wer never leased, Under congressional pres eae HW re en Hien a Raa Mann he ef econ Astg Yung Gy Men sh rae Bok a Geen Wess Queer ond Now 3 sure in 991 a survey of adolescent sen behavior is defunded, Under the threat of congressional presse, sopport forall esearch on sexuality sad deny (inthe fll of:99) des up Seemingly, hissy warns its chldeen to know nothing; wants ts quer children so conform or (and hiss nak 4 Figut of speech ches and wants not toknow tat iis geting what wants precirg, ‘Prowsine, saveGLiNe, READING, OvERREADING This history makes its ima om what, individual, we ae and do, One sto ets tars up in the reducible mullayeredaess and muliphsednes of what queer ‘val means—since being survivor on thi scene mater of Surving nto tnet, stigma, the spiraling violence of gay and sbi bashing nd (inthe AIDS emergeney) the omnipesence of vomatic fea and wrenching los. Iisa to have survived into'a moment of unprecedented cultural richness, cohesion, andasetveness for many lesbian snl gay adults Sur vivo gi, survivors’ he, even survivors’ responsibly: poweruly a5 these are experience, they arealo mor than complicated by how perme able he idea "survivor" mast be othe undiminishing current frisky illness, mourning nd defance “Thus!'m uncomfortable generalizing abou people who do quses writing and teaching even wishin iterate; but some elects do cen widespread |shink many adults (and Lam among them) re trying in ou work, to keep faith with vividly remembered promises made to ourselves in chidhood: mists fo make inunible possiblities and desies vibe; to make the ‘Bee chins explics; to smuggle quer representation in where it mus be smug and, with the relative Heedom of adulthood to challenge queer _tadiating poles ronlly wher they are o bev challenged Think that for many of ws in cildhod the ability to attach intey co 4 fe eloral jects bec hgh or populace or bah bys ‘Whose meaning seemed mysterious, excessive oobi lation othe des most realy available ous, became a prime resource for suv. We needed fo there oe sites where the meanings didn line up tdly wih eachother, and we earned ro invest those ster with ascinaton and love. This cant hep coloring the aul relation to cull tens and ob ects fat, almost had forme to imagine another way of coming to ‘are enovgh about erature to ve a ie the text andthe ead rom 3 neta paradox with dhe writing eared fo, ar the evel of sentence structure, metrical pt ter, thyme, was one way of ting appropriate what seen the nn nous and resistane power af the chosen objects. Education made it easy ie founded on such basic de 1 Queer an Nene ‘accumulate tol for this pra forma poet, case the text that magntied me hapened tobe nove and poems its imped eel the way aes of my generation an sine seem to have mented fr there, in he somaya great nei the tools for formal ape henson of eke es pretigions, mote ubiquitous kinds of texte ‘ves, advering, comes, Forme, th tong formal ; formal ivemen dimly (as formalism is feral taken mp an evacuation of nteret from the panna he mags theta dnesions ote et Bg he conta a red brought books and poms was hardy tobe cicumberbed aad {ck Tne Twouhivevo stuglo wre im them sustaining nwa WO ies yt and (in varios senses my hind The teaday se on ich demands an tn ha ena isthe grain of thems patent aa formulac for young feopes feidng and Meagan th rai, ot, ofthe most seca Yes ‘Spiess themsces. At any ate, bsominga perverse readers ‘eee maneofm condecensono text athe fhe spn charg ot inthe tn power refractory, and exemplary. Ad this Sem aha wy ds sl way for adn ean function in lao sweeexpetenes mee ees TENN The i ean and ay ti clas gh wan in {gh Deparment Art Calg ini pt ke wih St oly a) weld how pt dead te SRI with hem nmin ts sein ha would esto ngs army owe. Thee eeigny- eset shoved am salem, ah ei ling taught s manera tse oun by no, =< ous no, kno tough 0 © ect to lose plenty of sleep. ch of | 'c ee . oe xh of them The level of curated ETP themacyf he demand shat sade apo he ie la fer couse sates hae unetnatey roed Fe rr BE eetion hat ch cure mal il dc thn wher nah mri hey anol play cones eee tort veh sch expstaons mo ebn lore nd me alc awnes,Esecily coming th ny Se Sacco ac stews rng wth te oe elt nen nt prco sue Mas aen dog event SRTu el some un any at erty cae decree oe masnsu sys or women and mcnsecten or eat “pos ade havebones to pick with each or with ne Qncer and Now ‘What has surprised me moreishow divisive sues of methodology and di- plinarty ar: the ingle most controversial thing in several undergraduate ‘tases hasbeen that they wore iterate couse, that the patho every ‘sue we dscssed simply had to ake the arduous defile through tonal merpreation, Furthermore, i was instructive to me in that lass at Amberst that a greatmany stents, eadnts who dened themselves as pong, Wet t- sed when (in an iterview inthe sadentnewspape) Ito the sory fof the course's pees. What outraged them was the mete notation that "had designed the course evisionng an enrliment of mostly lesbian and tay stent Their seme ofeniement a straight eine stants was 0 Firongthac they considered tan inalienable ight wo have all kinds of i ferent ives, histories, clues unfolded a antropolialyn formats specially designed designe from the ground up —for maximum kee bit to themselves: they fet they shouldn't so much ashave slow down {he Mercedes o rea the istrical markers on th ated That it wat a fel where the actual survival of ther peopl inthe ass might athe very moment be a take—where, inded, in a variety of ways 30 might thet ‘wn be—was hard o make notable hem among the permited assmp- tons of thee bea ts education. Yee same education was being wed So diterenly by stadens who brought to sharper needs, more supple epistemological frameworks? cumsruas ereers Whats “gut”? Hers oe rain of thought about it The depressing thing abou the Chrstnas seasons iis that is the time when al he institutions are speaking with one oie. The Chrch says what the Charch says. But the tate sys the sume things maybe not (Gin some ways i hardly mas) in the language of theology, but inthe Tanguage the State aks egal holidays, long school his, special pos ‘age stamps, and al, And the language of commerce more than ches, {5 consumer purchasing arganized ever more narrowly around the Sl wees ofthe calendar year, the Dow Jones aguive over Americans “oli day mood." The med, in un alin emphaly behind the Cheistnas phalanead-swolen magazines have oozing rkeys on the cover, while for ‘he news industry every question urs imo the Chistmas question —Will hostages be fice for Christmas? What di that lsh od or mas murder (umpry-ump people kl and maimed) dot those famiee Chace? And meanwhile, the paring “amules/Chrstmas” becomes inctesingly ‘autlogieal as amiies more and more constr themselves according to © Qucerand Now the schedule an inthe ene tered image ofthe holiday sl com sted in he mage of te Fay. ‘The thnghs aly mchto do with propaganda for Cristy 2 with propaganda for Chima They aren, sae, ep ‘ely, domes te douse of poner an epi —fine ‘eth cch eer so mea ome a yen andthe slit so aed ‘hing oe can ome tie with ankappy ees Wha fica here were practi fang te was in which meanings and itatonscan bes lose ec with each ther? Whafte cht utrs ween the ones ‘here eerthng mast same hing? Thnk hate the a 2 impacted socal pce in which alla the flloning ae meant oe op perely wheat ede ‘sera ad egal unt based on stead mariage 2 cif nd lense 45pm of companionship and sczoe a building " proce bene pina and “pbc” 22cconomicunit fing and ator tke prime se of eonomiconunpion the ries of lal ensampon 4 nechanism o prod, care for aed achat cideen ‘mechanism for acumulating material goods over several Ene 2d oie 2 ins communi of wn Site of patriotic formation ‘ndof cour thelist cou go 00. Look Siem Se mi et Meier eo ticran eat Songs ibe aon h he Cotas ote ee Scent itn oa compan Oetiker mt} ing at my own if, sce that—prob Queerand Now 7 ‘emi, something thatthe common sens of our time presents 3 2 unc tary category. Ye exerting any pressure al on seal deity you see ‘hat its lements include your biological eg, chromosomal) sex, malo female, Your self-pereived gender assignment, male or female (supposed to ‘be the sme as your loge sex, ‘he preponderance of your traits of personality ad appearance, mas cline or feminine (suposed corespondtoyoursex and gender the biological sex of your prefered parner; the gender asignment of your prefered partner (supposed to he the se a berths biological ex), ‘the masculiniy or femininity of your prefered partner (supposed 40 be the opposite of your own your self-perception 35 gay of Staight (supposed to corespond 10 ‘whether your prefered partners your sex othe opposite; your prefered pari’ sl perception 25 gay or eraghe (supposed to be the same as your), your procretive choice (apposed tobe yes traght, noi 39); Your preferred sexual ac) supposed to be inserive if you ae male ‘or masculine, receptive if you ae female of feminine) your most ercczed sexual organs (supposed to correspond to the Procreatve capable of your se, apd to your serve receptive assignment) your sexual farasies (supposed tobe highly congruent with your ‘sexual practic, bu stronger i intensity; your main locus of emotional oads (supposed 10 reside in your pre fered sexual partners your enjoyment of power in sexual relations (suppoed to be low if you ar emaleo feminine, high if male or mataline, "he people from whom you lear abott your own gender ard se sup posed to correspond to yourself in bh specs: ‘your community of cultural and poll identification (supposed ro ‘cotespond ro your own identity) Tey es destin ded on te msn hh mae an re sascha meee each mer pa Sommer ans nea Thetlpl pipe ond cope sa mena isp of weeny a me en he ier om hem © Qucerand Now and—again—any more Even this st remarkable forthe si sain kale for the sien pre- spins it as to make abot a given persons scxsly, presumptions that arto oly o varying grees, and for may people wa rea al i veryone "has asexual” formance, and that ts impicated with {26h pn’ sere of orelidenityinsiae wy hat ech pons Detghsericcocaresion il bored ward ante pe on and ot autor; tht fi ilar it wll be oricned toward {inde pares or kindof partner a atime; that its orientation wil not ‘lane ovr tine’? Normatiely, asthe parenthetical prescritons inthe ich lanl yay ae rst tal inh nn yo “normative assumption that “the biole ve ue eS pedenee teenager on ne ae Tce Cen te ajone senility arent made or “ean tele the open mash of ce and revi lps and cit deme of sone gee of ‘an Be mad) 0 sy ona psp epson poli ‘ery many of who maya ts be amor many ther poses) poy gy ones thts ine Se etn he, astra, ldap fc ftom, soy, ansevoy suns a veh sep with meno ele or identify with such, rom ue an mean ed 0 far ha gat something diferent: 2 lot ofthe way Ihave Breton int dose dena, aon sinh sane ae Sraageeebinor say eharornerinespe ieee finales And gen he harlot ee race Prohibitions. inst every a ma tone to disavow those meanis ns tem rom ea “eect ‘teams alten fami Letimteomes ey Qucerond Now 9 spins the term outward along dimensions that can't be subsumed under ender and sexuality 3 all the ways that ace, tics, posteaonial Iaionalty ense-ron with these and oer denity-constiating enti feactting dncoores, for example. Intellectual and artis of colar whose sexual sedition includes “queer"—Iehink fan sac Julie, 2 Gloria Anzai, a Richard Fong—are using the leverage of "queer" odo a new ind of justice tothe facta intricacies of language, kin migration, stat. “Thereby the gravity mean the racitas, she meaning, Bu also the center of ravty) ofthe term “queer elf deepens ad sis [Another tcling representational cect A word so feaught as “qucee™ rghit with so many socal and persoal tot oF exci, Tence, deface; eXtement—neve cn only denote; nr even can it only ‘hinbic; a pat ofits experimental force asa speech act isthe wy in ‘which it dramatizes loctionary postion isl, Anyone’ use of "queer™ shout themselves means diferent from their us of abou somo ee “This tre ant might alo be trac of Tsbisn” or "gay" because ofthe ‘olen diferent onnorativeeralustion tht sem to cists around the and lesbian” sll present themselves (however de Tasively as objective, empirical categories governed by empirical ules of ‘evidence (however contested). “Queer” seems to hinge much more fad tally and explicitly ona persons undertaking particular performatine ats of experimental seltpecsepin ad aon Abypothesis worth making which “quer” can sini onty rollay: that what pullin tne icin heist person, ‘cunnenr:pRovter’s The Golden Bow. L. Austin Dr. Susan Love's Brest Book, and Mme de Seige are stacked up ope face, onthe cait opposite meat I write ve pot three projets Braiding and wbraiing in ‘ny mind; the essay in his Book mark im ilferet ways, dei convergent nd divergent progres. Isc them a an impetin no fatare work aswel, Project most of the essays in his hook emboayit—Is about desires and ideniatons that move across gender ines, coding the desires of ‘men for women and of women for men Inthat sens, self-evident, hetero- Sealy ne ofthe projet’ subjects. Bu the essays are quter ones. “Their angle of approach s directed pot at reconfeming the se evidence snd “natural of beteonenul ide and desi, bt rather 3 re ‘ering those culturally cereal, apparently monolithic constructions newly scesnible wo analysand interrogation. 0 Quer and Now TM, ik party bese a he ayes wen the speech ieaons sounding Brena an honoree “Michel Foucaule argues, during the eighteenth and chee ih Fence din en an teh coms oer teary acai rel en fosanenr tanec hs owing mat Ele Olin cia om do tee ‘repre had aii move drone ae ‘teh iy nc Aso ‘matrimony andthe immanent ule of seal unm inn lity Began to be ecorded Tani ee ep smn Fh nrg men uly shton of te Tht nian sens hea de ao Sena Rimeonated rela” herosealiy may facto ay Lemna Norse eae eae nega rer heouy eee smectite ray ae one name he pene ene ee cee he iy ate hy ane set sane mar van cna wh pens whe ee hana ah oleic hahnonf ns oe ack {esc othe avd esr cap eae ee Eeptcecn ers Hae ea wh stagnalis, hema pom e ote Foca ah ae thre daywadaine rks peoe ss aveanliychowe eee st aig mck ab sorting nd hee Seat a bic hers dia ee berm schas rane Mage Brat ality. Th ma making historically underitsnsttuional po 5 Mil oh The ono Se Pea ef A nc Rb ek Querend Now a8 Family, Domestic, and Population, heterosexsaity hasbeen permite tomasquerade so fly x History faclf—when thas not presented itself ts the totality of Romance fproster 2. Here Im at much earlier tage, busy withthe negotiations involved in defining + new topic in 2 wabl, berstcally productive ways itil a sere of hunches and overlaps; working name is Queer Pt Formativy. You can sce the preoccupations that fel the projet already at work throughout Epistemology ofthe Closet aswel a Tendencies, but | Expect to be the work of a ext book oarve at Broadly able orm Tatons abou them. Like lot of thoes ight now dit Baler and her ‘important book Gender Trouble can, pehaps, standin for alot ofthe rest fol) im interested in the imphcatons fe gender and sexuality of ta ‘ion of pilowophical thought concerning certain aterances tha do not merely describe, bt actualy perform the actions they name: “Pcese™; “best resolved; "thee weds "I apologizes “I dae you.” Discs: sons of igstic performatvaty have Become 2 place to elect on ways {in which language really can be ai to produc eects: efecto identity, «enforcement, seduction, challenge!” Tey lo deal with how powerfully language positions: docs change the way we understand meaning, for instance, ifthe mantic force ofa word ke "queer" iso diferent in 2 frst person from what sina secondo third peson sentence? My see that i span of thought that aches t lest rom Pato ro Fuca there ae some distinctive linkages wo be raced berwee nui te peformativity and hstoies of samesex dese want tg farther ‘withan argument implicit in Epistemology of he Close: that both the act ‘of coming outs and hoseednes ult con be taken a5 dramatizing certain features of igus performativiy in ways that have broadly applicable implications, Among the stoking aspect of considering clsetedness in this framework, fr nstance, stat the speech actin questions aseris of ‘sence! 'm he mote eager to think about performatiy 00, because it tnay ofr some ways of desebing what critical writing can effec (prom ‘Sing? smugaling?, anything hat fers to make his gave more cute and experimental, less numb otal, sa welcome prospect. ‘Shane elu Lay Spt: Do an th Ato Sato (ede jut tars Cony Pre Foun on Be Sern of yee “ek Rote 12 Querand Now Prams This rot inte thinkng and writing about something shar alse lx of my dle over the ps er Ea in rope was dagnosel, ute weap, wih a bent ence ta had aed spread omy pte, ate experioncs of depos surge chmotheran, and oft, whe dang and sary. hate eon sheer est hep ocr the agp, sexual, an deny formation hat were seadyom ny dock Te 8 thelial mindedness of mason cheney ndaced nese et would warm encourage anyone eet i the soil cost ‘ono ener find some ayo spending bal aye oo ly ald woman) As general prince don ike the es of “apg ‘hort modesto para statins or text valyn nee te xing when hepsi of aplication gos inboth deste lle same shad not thnk of hs contin eer samy oer things nites nape decomtacton ow cue aed 4 4 mor eit danensuaton of heist of he anpoedone sto tat atte nex ofthe pa ed we when cane dramatialy corrode that sino sty and dang? whe ee tan lf he women ged with eta ap arth vsti defn ok act orden and ape when ete go qurely py coming ype mh ae ‘reo dl wih here hat alm or rah omen ha at ‘5: past and future ena pera ating the pty fest adhe people who cae for he oy tempor tat ys ee {2a der hough anda wd in ny head are i th ali, bot a the gm im edn eadmls ad ig weg) OF ‘icrzura an he whol ha with he exe te bok, Tae Phin: the uncanny appendage ofthe IV dip, che bionic implant of thePoacathllin hero maging andor ny ea” Sn Boyt h fc of sont enone apt ‘a Problemaicsofundecdably presen hemscen sn snoy ce nd tn te eso ge fo air ane sl eto ame osm emt ura nee ‘enna selec te Ps sb op eget ee al hcp sles qe Qwcerand Now 38 way with disease whose very beet outcome—sine breast cancer doesn't respec the five-year state of imitations that constitutes cute for some ‘other cancers—will be decades and decades of ree fallimerpreive panic Part of what | want ose, though, whats tobe earned for aring thisexperienc of dealing with eee, malls (ad my) marked historical specify, and with all the uncicumscrbablenes ofthe turbulence and threat involved, back toward a enfronation with the theoretical models that have helped me make sense ofthe world so fa. The phenomenology ‘of lifethreatening ies; the peeformatity oie threstene, relatively clon, by les; he recent crystallization ofa politics explicit ‘ented around grave illness exploring these connections has atest fo me ‘thas 1o mean hurling my energies outward to inhabit the very farthest ‘ofthe lose ends wheee representation, ienity, gender, sexuality, and the body can't be made to ine up eal together. t's probably no surprising that gener i 0 stony, so muliply va lenced inthe experience of breast cancer today. Received wisdom ha t that being breast cancer pant even whe it supposed o pote wigue alleges to one's ens of “femininity nonetheless plunges ne into an ‘experience of almost archeypal Femalenes. Judith Frank isthe find ‘whom like to thnk ofas Bry Ford tomy Happy Rockefele—e fiend, thats, whose decision to be public about her own breast cance diagno” sis impelled met the doctor with my worisome lump; she and her lover, Sasha Torres, are only two of many women who have made this exper ence survivable for me: compaerss, fiends, advo, vistors, students lovers correspondents, relatives, caregivers (thes Being anything but di rete categories). Some of these ar indeed people Ihave come t ove in femiise- ndor lesbian defined contexts; beyond that, lot ofthe knowl ‘edge and skills chat keep making these women's support 10 beautify apropos derive from distinctive feminist, lesbian, and women's histories. (Fa singe ou, in his connection, the conebation ofthe women's health ‘movement ofthe 70s—is trenchant aale, it rset and aia polis, ts pblcains. the ates and institutions bul nd yore ofthe careers it seems to have inspired) 1a. The wrk of hi monet mon ste ys ks he he Heh at Calms Thee On Boi Ours Upton fer te oh Sion Sh el ro Lorde, Pe ance forma eS Face: Sper In, Hand A Bart of Lah (hc, Fd Bk 8. $4 Queer and Now Anes hh etn itn Seine Seieiemaar menage “inte eee Simtel thant cana ae ‘hes metro ym re ere Seat Ser ae ere Eee ea anon ea Yaa Sacremento ie ea se SoReal eee ei gl An gent Si ae ee Sin bea os ea eae ‘Provided the preponderance ofthe group's leadership and ener2y oman ae ee at moana ran SATU Sra Ma pects antenatal ermine ney ae eta raed nn om wane Sn Tedecestelsmre be what oes ie goa ee ancora ite orn "Ie companion, and others made available ‘to me almost over Quer ond Now a wheiming supplies of emotional, logical, nd cogive sustenance! — a very much shaped by AIDS and the erial politics surrounding iti «ling the politics of homophobia ad of quer asetveness. The AIDS activist movement, in aE, owes mach fo the women's heath movement ‘ofthe 705; and in another turn an activi police of bras cance pest. cade by lesbians, scm inthe last yar orto t hve Ben eerging based onthe model of AIDS activism" Thedalecicl epistemology ofthe to diseases, r00—te kinds of secret each ha constituted the Kinds of ‘oes cach has required andispized-—has made an intimate moive for ime. Ar “White Gases” 395, esas hough there were trasformative pail work tobe done just by being available toe identified with inthe very grain of one's (orcs 10 say the ran of one's own itll emotional, boy selfs refracted though illess anda resin t)—being valle for entifeationo fends, bat aswel o people who don' lve one ‘vento people who may ac like one a all ao even wish one wel ‘ey wan aaninsr wesramm ermuzamion That there were such people— ‘that, indeed, the public discourse of my country wa increasingly doi- ‘nated by them—got harder and harder wo gnre daring the months of my iagnosis and intial treatment Foe theft ime, was becoming routine ‘ond my actual name, and ot js the labels of my kind on those nal 'svc lists of who was tobe considered more dangerous than Saddam Hus sci, In some ways, the timing ofthe dag couldn't ave been beter if 14 needed a reminder I had one tha, sure enough, Me eto sort at least mines, forgoing headtohead with people whos highest approba ‘on even, would offer no intellectual or mora suppor in which could find value. Physically Iwas ekg oof enough that the decison to et {his journalism wash over me was hardly 3 real choice—however | might find mye misspelled, misquoted, mis paraphrased, or in one ballacna ‘ory account) mated Sancy Fish 1 was the exer vo deal pychially 1) Aad yc ca et meg he iy pee ing mea at os ‘hiner on taeda meander pda ay ey inom heme . 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Through raucous orchestrated, electronically amplied campaigns ‘of mockinredulous scorn, imeletal and artistic wel as polite pox ibis, skis ambitions, and Knowledges have been lid waste with 2 relishing wantonness. No great difcaly in tecogniing those aspects of ‘the ani-"PC" craze that are futons cover for aight cogil putsch; but it has surprised me tha 0 fw people seem to view thereat developments 25, among other things, part of an ovetarching history of -inelectulsm: anaes eas wel as ight, Ne twentieth entury political movement, ater ll, can afford noo play the card of populism, whether or not the popular welfare is what fc has mainly at ‘eat indeed, perhaps especialy where is east 0). And aniiellectal Pogroms like antt-Semitic or quer bashing nes, ae quick, efile di teacting, and almos universally understood signifies for populist sl

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